Locking device for automobile hand-control levers



E. A. OLSEN..

LOCKING DEVICE FOR AUTOMOBILE HAND CONTROL LEVEHS.

- APPLICATION FILED MAY 17..1917. RENEWED NOV. 3. 1919.

. 1 333,2 1 5 Patented Mar. 9, 1920.

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- Application filed Max-17, 1917, Serial No. 169,287.

Be it known"thatIQED ARD A. OLSEN, a

citizen of the United States,residing in the cityof Portland, county of Multnoinah, and State of Oregolnhave invented certain new an(l.,i1sef11l Improvementsin Locking Devices for Automobile Hand-Control Levers, ofwhich the followingis aspecification. 1

My invention relates to a'locking device I particularly adaptedrior. lockingthe hands: control lever of an automobile in neutral po-. sition, whereby it is. impossible to manipue being provided with locking means formed as apart thereof for locking it to said sup- P0117. l i

I have illustrated my" mvention on the accompanying sheet of drawings, as em bodied for locking thehand-control leverof. a Dodge Brothers motor car, which ll will now describe. V I V Flgure 1 1s. a'fragmentary, sectlonal vlew of the support, or socket member, fora handcontrol lever, showing my invention applied thereto; 7

Fig. 2 is aside view of: the hand control.

lever; v Fig. 3 is an enlarged, horizontal sectional view, taken on line 33 ofF ig. l; and I Fig. 4 is a detailed view showingthe-locke ing bolts and a portion of thetumbler for moving the same. s p Referring now. in detail, to the drawings,

- my invention, as here illustrated, comprises a support, or socket member, 1, as now used on Dodge Brothers motor cars, adapted to receive the'pivot ball'2, of the hand-control level- 3, in the manner clearly shown, A

special adjustment nut &, is screwed into the socket member 1, as indicated, in place of the ball adjusting nut originally provided with the machine. This adjustment nut constitutes apart of the lever supportand is adapted to receive a locking. member 5, in the manner clearly indicated in Fig; 1. Said 7 Tlocking memberocomprises a disk-likebody exceptas I may f LooKI NG n vIcE on AUToMoBi n HA Dj-coNTRon LEv Rs.

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Renewed lIovember 3, '1919. Serial No. 335380 provided with a central, elongated opening 5, with an entrance opening 5 whereby said lock'5 can be placed upon the lever 3 and dropped down into the upper end of the adjusting nut i, the lever Sb'eing thus held a firmly against movement'from itsneutral position, as clearly lllustrated n s Fig. 3. Said locki-ng'member 5 s provided ,with

locking bolts i'and 8, adapted when extended, P1?

on *the innerface of the adjustment nut 4,

in the manner shown in F igI'SI to fit at tlieir outer ends into an internal'groove 9,-formed v saidfbolts,. as-illustrated m Fig. l, overlapping 'ea-ch iother l at then inner ends and being provided with expanding springs as 10 and '11, intended to normally movethem apart and out into locking positions. Said bolts are provided on their inner overlaptrolled and turned by means of a key 13;

It willbe evident, of course,that any desired key and "tumbler mechanism may be ping ends, respectively, ,with'hook-like por- [t1ons17 and '8, adapted to fit around an operating member-'12, adapted. to be con- .75

usedfor operating .thebolts 7 and 8 of my] invention, whereby each lock will require its own particular key for moving its bolts f into locked or unlocked positions. I

I'am aware that many changes can be made inmy invention as here illustrated without departing from the spirit thereof,

and" I do not therefore, limit my invention, be limited by the hereto appended claims.

Iclaim: J

v 1. In combination with a' socket member anda' hand-control lever therein "for uni-.

versal' movement, an adjustment bearing" member. seated therein around said hand control lever, and a locking member there- 7 ."for comprising an independent member having a central opening with aradia'l entrance 1 opening jthereinto, whereby itcan be placed '3 v on said hand-control lever, fan'd adapted to seat down into": said adjustment. bearing member around said lever, fand key-actuated locking means withm saidi'lockmg member and adapted to be moved outwardly into 7 locking engagement with said adjustment;

bearing member, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the character referred "to, in combination, a cup-like socket member, an operating lever having a' pivot-ball seated in said socket member, an'adjustment placed at will around said lever and seated bearing nut having an open center and adapted to be screwed into said socket member over said ball, a disk-like locking memher having an opening into its center and adapted to be placed around said lever and seated bodily down into. said adjustment nut,

and key-operated locking boltsforming a part of said locking member and adapted to be moved radially outwardly into locking engagement with the inside of said locking nut, substantially as described.

3. In combination, a. socket member, a

lever having a' pivot-ball seated in said socket member, an adjustment nut above said pivot-ball and having anopen center through which said lever projects, an independent locking member comprising a disk-like bodyliaving an opencenter With an opening leading thereinto from its outer edge, Wliereby'said locking meinber'can be down into said adjustment nut, said locking member having locking bolts seatedftherein and adapted to have interlocking. engagements at theironter ends-With said adjustment nut, and means for operating said bolts, substantially as described.

l. Locking means for the hand control ,leverof an automobile, comprising in coming said lever against 'in vement, "and keyactuatedlocl'cing means within said "locking member and adapted to, be moved outwardly into locking engagement with said adjustmentbearings-member. j a

Signed at Portland, Multnomah county,

Oregon, thisllth day'of May, 1917.,

j I V EDYVARD A. OLSEN.

' In presence of: 4

I. M. GRIFFIN, J. C'. STRENG 

